Jane Rolfe (Poythress) - Anyone want to help?

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9:19 AM
Somebody did some merging on this and messed up the line again.

Once again I am showing direct ascent to Pocahontas, Thomas' mother but he is showing as second cousin five times removed's husband's third great grandfather.

I think the problem lies with this profile

Jane Rolfe...

Someone has added children John and Thomas which are incorrect.

Jane Poythress & Thomas Rolfe only had one child.

As Rolfe was a child of an Englishman and a Native American woman, some aspects of his life were particularly controversial. He expressed interest in rekindling relations with his Native American relatives, despite societal ridicule and laws that forbade such contact. In 1641, Rolfe petitioned the governor for permission to visit his "aunt, Cleopatra, and his kinsman Opecanaugh".[6]

(Often named as the son of John Rolfe the colonist was a different Thomas Rolfe, who married Elizabeth Washington in September 1632 at St James's Church in Clerkenwell, London. This couple had two children and lived in England until after 1642. Many people wrongly claim descent from Pocahontas and John Rolfe through this unrelated Thomas Rolfe.)

Thomas Rolfe later married a woman named Jane Poythress, who was the daughter of Captain Francis Poythress, a prosperous landowner in Virginia.[7] They had one daughter together, who was also named Jane, after her mother.[8]

In 1698 his grandson, John Bolling (Jane's son), released to William Browne his rights in land, in a deed in which Bolling is identified as "...son and heir of Jane, late wife of Robert Bolling of Charles City County, Gent., which Jane was the only daughter of Thomas Rolf, dec'd..."[9] As confirmed by the 1698 deed quoted above, his daughter Jane married Robert Bolling. Robert Bolling and Jane Rolfe Bolling had one child; their son John was born January 26, 1676.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rolfe

Thank you for your help.

Around 1650, Thomas and Jane had their only child, Jane. Jane went on to marry Colonel Robert Bolling in 1675. The couple had one son, John. John Bolling was the third in line of descendants from Rebecca and John Rolfe, and from Bolling came seven children. John sparked off the trend of having more than one child, each successive generation doing the same.

https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/thomas-rolfe.htm

Lieut. Thomas Rolfe, b. 1651 son of Capt. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, married Jane Poythress, daughter of Lieut. William Poythress, of Jamestown, Va. They had one child, a daughter, called Jane Rolfe, who married (1675) Col. Robert Bolling.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3iQSAAAAYAAJ&printsec=f...

Some Prominent Virginia Families – Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin - Volume 4

7/27/2018 at 1:55 PM

She is in my tree.

Fixed now - discussion can be closed

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